A tad weird, but cool all the same… The Ideogenetic Machine is an interactive application that incorporates portraits of participants into an algorithmically generated comic book in real time. The comic is created live through custom software using portraits of participants captured with the installations camera and matches it to a database of drawings by the artist illustrating speculative narratives based on current news and events.

The installation challenges participants to actively respond to the emerging story through performance and collaboration to continue the undefined story in real time. Thoughts on this?